it's the freak phone
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Every time I advocate for voting people are like “no you shouldn’t vote! Read this literature, it’ll totally change the way you view voting!” And every single time it’s the same fucking “you shouldn’t vote because both parties are exactly the same so it won’t make a difference who wins” bullshit wrapped up in some fancy language
“OP you need to read ‘Voting is not Harm Reduction” OP has read Voting is not Harm Reduction. It opens with the acknowledgement that for the most vulnerable people, even a tiny degree of harm reduction can mean life or death and then continues to advocate for not participating in that harm reduction lest you “participate in your own oppression”. Pardon me for not finding “vulnerable people should die for my ideology” very convincing.
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What is our ecological responsibility when encountering an invasive animal species?
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that depends on what that species is, and im struggling to come up with any catch-all response to that. there are a lot types of animals.
some stuff is way beyond our control, like the invasion of earthworms into North America and many other invertebrate species—it would be just as much of a waste of effort trying to kill all the spotted lanternflies as it would be to dig up every worm in the forest.
for stuff like fish, cats, and hogs… I really don’t know. this isn’t my area of expertise but I do think invasive mammals are at least a little easier to exclude/control/manage through hunting and trapping than minute flying or soil borne invertebrates (maybe not the hogs. they sound unstoppable). also people tend to get very stupid when it concerns charismatic or domesticated megafauna, even if vulnerable native ecology is at stake.
in all cases, prevention is most important: don’t let pets loose, make note of unfamiliar insects or help to track the spread of establishing species.
I also think it is important to not demonize or abuse the invasive animals regardless of what we need to do to control them. they’re not evil, they’re just trying to survive—torturing them doesn’t accomplish anything. so even if cane toads and cats and horses *AND pythons and fish and other uncharismatic animals* have to be killed to protect native ecosystems, we ought to find ways to do that that both have the intended effect and don’t cause unnecessary harm.
also, please no “humans are the invasive species” thing. I will hit you with my ecologist stick
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3 components of worldbuilding:
1. The author’s kinks
2. The author’s power fantasy
3. The author’s political agenda
Plot and logic optional
4. The author’s special interest
5. The author’s object of loathing
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呼吸してるところも見られた
でもいつも撮れないんだよなぁ
興奮しすぎてるのかもしれないです
@鳥羽水族館
I could see them breathing, but I can’t always capture it. I might be too excited….
@Toba Aquarium
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Types of -Cide For Your Writing
- Suicide - Act of killing yourself
- Regicide - Act of killing a king or queen
- Vaticide - Act of killing a prophet
- Parricide - Act of killing any relative
- Mariticide - Act of klling your husband
- Uxoricide - Act of killing your wife
- Siblicide - Act of killing your sibling
- Sororicide - Act of killing your sister
- Fratricide - Act of killng your brother
- Matricide - Act of killing your mother
- Filicide - Act of killing your child
- Infanticide - Act of killing a child within their first year of life
- Patricide - Act of killing your father
- Avunculicide - Act of killing your uncle
- Nepoticide - Act of killing your nephew
- Amicide - Act of killing your friend
- Senicide - Act of killing an elderly
- Homocide - Act of killing a person
- Pedicide - Act of killing children
- Democide - Murder of a person or people by the government
- Omnicide - Act of killing humans with intentions to make them extinct
- Deicide - Act of killing a deity, divine being, or god
- Mundicide - Act of killing a planet
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I am still obsessed with the fact that the warrior of light canonically carries up to 2000 smartphones on their person at any given time and uses them like money to pay for stuff
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Animal, whose life is so difficult and hard because I don’t spend my entire day petting her
It’s just parrots it’s perfectly fine to pet a chicken. They are completely different species and chickens are domesticated
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it is insane how people do just . not know what objective is. like if you are trying to argue there is some objective difference between “good art” and “bad art” and your first argument is that “well objectively good art makes people feel good and bad art makes them feel bad” you . have no clue what art is. and also have no clue what objectivity is.
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For my job I do a lot of restoration work, like planting native plants. Apparently the general public is extremely stupid. We cage some of the plants to protect them from rabbits/deer/beaver. I have known this my whole life, I thought it was common knowledge, but apparently it isn’t? People regularly tear the cages off because they think they plants are in “plant jail” and think they are saving them??? Congrats idiot, you just killed them.
We also have blue rain barrels out so we can, you know, water the newly planted plants and keep them alive. I guess someone walking by after we left thought it was herbicide, not water??? So they broke holes in it and poured it out? First off, how the hell do you confuse water and herbicide. Second, why the FUCK would we just leave herbicide lying out. Lastly, they are SO LUCKY it was not herbicide or they would’ve just killed the land around that entire area for YEARS and probably got herbicide on themself too and hurt themself! Wtf!(via taggthewanderer)
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have i ever shown u people my hand sofa
my prized possession is this loveseat I bought from a divorced dad who couldn’t tell me anything about it and in the years i’ve owned it i’ve never been able to find out who made it or where it came from. it’s got nails and finger creases and palm lines but they’re all kinda hard to see in this pic.
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